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Satellite Here To Stay' By: Dan Remember when Cable TV came into the picture and began bullying around the network stations for all their lunch money' Well watch out Cable because you might get a little taste of your own Medicine from a powerful extra terrestrial,... satellite that is. A multi-channel alternative to cable television known as Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) is now available in theUnited States of America and boy is it ready to rock. DBS provides picture perfect cable-like television programming directly from satellite dishes approximately 18 inches in diameter. Millions of households now subscribe to DBS services resulting in what appears to have the cable industry wondering what’s going to happen. Cable was introduced in the late 1940’s in the “boone docks” of Pennsylvania when it’s original name was known as CATV, or Comunity Antenna TV. During this time there were only a few stations and in order to even recieve any picture, a TV set had to be in the vacintaty of antenna where a signal could be recieved. Anyone with a TV who lived to far from the antenna would be crap out of luck. Finally an appliance store owner named John Walson hooked up an antenna to a dbs, cable, tv, directv, service, subscribers, satellite, world, services, programming, over, channels, already, picture, out, one, channel, antenna, watch, two, today, time, television, network, million, industry, broadcasting, been, year, stations, states, satellites, now, dishes, dish, company